Test 4 · ★★★ · Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★
Three of these are usually played with a bow. Which odd one is plucked?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: play, pluck · To what, where: Three, odd one
This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 41 «Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★» of the arts course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: Three of these are usually played with a bow.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 played | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 these | case |
| 3 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 1 Three | nmod |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 played | aux:pass |
| 5 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 6 played | advmod |
| 6 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 bow | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bow | det |
| 9 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 played | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 played | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present · passive | Three of these | with a bow; usually property | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: subject=Theme with bow=Co-Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Sentence 2: Which odd one is plucked?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 one | det |
| 2 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plucked | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 plucked | aux:pass |
| 5 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 plucked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pluck | present · passive | which odd one | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
The kora
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 kora | det |
| 2 | kora | kora | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Chinese erhu
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 erhu | det |
| 2 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 erhu | amod |
| 3 | erhu | erhu | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The cello
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cello | det |
| 2 | cello | cello | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
The violin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 violin | det |
| 2 | violin | violin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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